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illnesses

n. (plural of illness English)

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A neurotic' individual, possessed also of psychosomatic ills, can be tested for those aberrations and illnesses, demonstrating that they exist.

How many more can be so classified after Dianetics has been in practice for a few years is difficult to predict, but it is certain that more illnesses are psychosomatic than have been so classified to date.

Almost all childhood illnesses are preceded by psychic disturbance and if psychic disturbance is present—keeping an engram restimulated—such illnesses can be far more violent than they should be.

A check of many subjects on this matter of childhood illness being predisposed by, precipitated by and perpetuated by engrams causes one to wonder just how violent the diseases themselves really are: they have never been observed in a cleared child and there is reason to investigate the possibility that childhood illnesses are in themselves extremely mild and are complicated only by psychic disturbance—which is to say, the restimulation of engrams.

Such illnesses require only one or two engrams of a specific nature to become manifest.

The hypochondriac thinks he has illnesses, a special case of Class 5 above.

One of the psychosomatic illnesses one would least expect to find as a psychosomatic affair is the illness of sexual perversion.

The chronic psychosomatic illnesses which a patient displays are those which have a sympathy (pro-survival) background.

But it was most dramatic in the multivalent aberree: for when the engram did not lift, it impinged against his analytical mind when he was awakened and created a variation in his psychoses and brought with it psychosomatic illnesses as well.

It addresses and handles the effects of the spirit on the body and can alleviate such things as unwanted sensations and emotions, accidents, injuries and psychosomatic illnesses (ones that are caused or aggravated by mental stress).

This only highlighted his confusion of how two women from central supply had managed to catch these illnesses while other, more exposed hospital workers had avoided them.

I really wanted his opinion about the plausibility of all these relatively rare illnesses having appeared so close together and at this time of year.

Then, as succinctly as possible, he explained his theory about the recent illnesses being intentionally spread.

I thought you were going to use common illnesses, not the plague, for chrissake.

In Auntie Q's circle, he was sure that one did not inflict one's illnesses on hosts.